Archive of films Rhino Season / Fasle kargadan

Iraq / Turkey
2012, 93 min

Section: Focus on Kurdish Film
Year: 2013

A poet and his wife were incarcerated during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. After years in prison, Sahel sets out to find his beloved in Istanbul. But a man who also loves Mina is there waiting. The cruel truth emerges out of melancholy memories. The film was inspired by the diary of Kurdish poet Sadegh Kamangar.

Synopsis

A love story marked by fate as a classical tragedy: in 1979 during Iran’s Islamic Revolution, poet Sahel Farzan and his wife were incarcerated – she for 10 years, he for 30. Convinced that her husband is already dead, Mina takes her two kids and moves to Turkey. It is there that the aging Sahel goes to look for her after his release. But her longtime admirer is also near at hand, a man who mercilessly interferes in their lives. Finally, out of the depths of the past – out of all those melancholy memories, verses, and magical pictures – the cruel truth emerges. This mystery melodrama grows to become an indictment of the regime and of repressive mechanisms capable of human destruction. The movie was inspired by the diary of Kurdish poet Sadegh Kamangar. In the lead roles the director cast Iranian legend of pre-Revolution film Behrouz Vossoughi, Italian star Monica Bellucci, and Yılmaz Erdoğan, the popular Turkish actor-director of Kurdish origin. The work is being presented under the auspices of Martin Scorsese.

About the director

Bahman Ghobadi (b. 1969, Baneh, Iran) started out as a documentarist whose Life in a Fog (Zendegi dar meh, 1999) opened the way to world festivals. He acted in Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards (Takhté siah, 2000) and gained recognition as a director with his feature debut A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha, 2000). His war drama Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand, 2004) took the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian IFF. He also shot a story about Kurdish musicians entitled Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh, 2002) and the road movie Half Moon (Niwemang, 2006). After making No One Knows About Persian Cats (Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh, 2009), he left Iran to work in Turkey. In the fall of 2012 he began working on a new project in cooperation with Martin Scorsese.

Contacts

Mij Film
Kultur Sokak No.1, Kat. 5 D. 123 Metroport AVM Busidence Center Bahcelievler, 34180, Istanbul
Turkey
Tel: +90 544 553 1839
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.mijfilm.com

Wild Bunch
65 rue de Dunkerque, 75009, Paris
France
Tel: +33 143 132 164
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.wildbunch.biz

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Focus on Kurdish Film

Director:	Bahman Ghobadi
Screenplay:	Bahman Ghobadi
Dir. of Photography:	Touraj Aslani
Music:	Kayhan Kalhor
Editor:	Valérie Loiseleux
Producer:	Bahman Ghobadi
Production:	Mijfilm
Cast:	Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdoğan, Caner Cindoruk
Contact:	Mij Film, Wild Bunch

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